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John Kelman's Best of 2005
By
JOHN KELMAN,
Published: January 3, 2006
John Kelman
With the realization that there will always be more music coming at him than he can keep up with, John wonders why anyone would think that jazz is dead or dying.Selected picks representing the top recorded events in jazz and beyond for 2005....
Jazz New Releases
 Tim Garland If the Sea Replied (Sirocco) |  Marc Johnson Shades of Jade (ECM) |  The Vandermark 5 The Color of Memory (Atavistic) |
 Cuong Vu It's Mostly Residual (ArtistShare) |  John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble A Blessing (OmniTone) |  Ulf Wakenius Notes from the Heart (ACT) |
 Trygve Seim Sangam (ECM) |  David Binney Bastion of Sanity (Criss Cross) |  Marc Copland Time Within Time (Hatology) |
 Pat Metheny Group The Way Up (Nonesuch) |  Bill Carrothers Shine Ball (Fresh Sound New Talent) |  Drew Gress 7 Black Butterflies (Premonition) |
Jazz Reissues/Historical Releases
 Pat Metheny Song X: Twentieth Anniversary (Nonesuch) |  John Coltrane One Down, One Up: Live at the Half Note (Verve) |  Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane At Carnegie Hall (Blue Note) |
 Steve Kuhn Trance (ECM) |  Soft Machine & Heavy Friends BBC In Concert 1971 (Hux) |  Bill Bruford Earthworks Mark I Reissues (Summerfold) |
Progressive/Other
 Robert Fripp Love Cannot Bear (Discipline Global Mobile) |  The Claudia Quintet Semi-Formal (Cuneiform) |  Hatfield and the North Hatwise Choice: Archive Recordings Volume 1 (Independent) |
 Dominic Frasca Deviations (Cantaloupe) |  Steve Reich You Are (Variations) (Nonesuch) |  King Crimson The 21st Century Guide to King Crimson Volume Two (Discipline Global Mobile) |
New Discoveries
 Mark Lockheart Moving Air (Basho Records) |  Jeff Baumeister Quartet Useful Music (Wahbo Records) |  In the Country This Was the Pace of My Heartbeat (Rune Grammofon) |
